I have a bunch of these as well, and even a few sets of components. Like
Paul, I put together another one every so often when I need a
microcontroller for a project, but I'm happy to share my stash with other
good homes.
--scott
On Mar 10, 2017 7:13 PM, "Paul Fox" wrote:
>
I'm in a presentation by Luis von Ahn, founder of DuoLingo, and I asked him
if he had any plans to expand to literacy.
He replied that they will be releasing a reading and typing (not writing,
which he thought had poor ROI) app next year.
This makes me extremely excited.
--scott
PS. I should
SJ and I did get a chance to follow up with him afterward and suggest that
they might considering teaching English literacy directly to non-native
speakers (as we did in our Ethiopia pilot, rather than only teaching
students in their native language; of course DuoLingo doesn't support a
large
A related question. I'll try to phrase this delicately -- what's the
relationship between Walter's Sugar 100 build and the latest OLPC
kernel? Can I safely assume that SugarLabs is the current keeper of
the flame and has all the latest hardware-support bits (I hope so!).
Gonzalo pointed me to a
Enterprise and hidden SSID access points.
There might be others, I haven't checked.
There are no hardware changes that I'm aware of in the manufacturing
pipeline, so no new hardware support needed yet.
On Mon, Nov 25, 2013 at 11:59:59AM -0500, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
A related question. I'll try
Anyone have any suggestions for my six year old friend? IIRC startup volume
is persistent, but I can't remember how it is adjusted. The rest might be
helped by upgrading to the latest XO4 build?
--scott
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Date:
I mentioned this project a while ago on IRC, and cjb has spread it around,
but manuq reminded me that I never actually posted it to a mailing list.
The mozilla Tow Truck project:
https://towtruck.mozillalabs.com/
is a very nice framework for real-time collaboration in the context of web
apps.
The following mostly-critical article was mentioned on IRC:
http://www.popsci.com/gadgets/article/2013-07/one-laptop-childs-de-evolution
It's worth keeping the criticisms in mind while working to invalidate them.
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The build I installed on my beta-tester's XO4 is about a month old.
I'm hoping the following are known issues, and all I have to do is
update the build. (Can I use olpc-update to do that?)
* The sound in Scratch and Memorize is scrambled; sound appears to be
piped from /dev/random and hurts my
IIRC its only the CJK fonts which really bloat the build. There's an old
bug in trac which discussed fonts at length; it might be worth digging that
up to ensure we're still covering all the languages we were covering then.
--scott
On Sep 5, 2012 6:58 PM, Chris Leonard cjlhomeaddr...@gmail.com
, Walter Bender wrote:
File a ticket and someone may jump in to tackle it.
-walter
see http://dev.laptop.org/ticket/11004
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 3:24 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Sat, Aug 25, 2012 at 2:26 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org
wrote
On Mon, Aug 27, 2012 at 10:05 AM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote:
In any case if OLPC or Sugarlabs wants to formally integrate NTP services
into our products, we should be polite and ask ntp.pool.org if we need our
own vendor subdomain. These allow the NTP pool to shut off
A friend has 11.3.0 installed on his son's XO 1.5. The kid complained
that the date was wrong on his XO, and he couldn't figure out how to
set it. Indeed, the Time and Date control panel only has time zone
selection, and no sort of network time program seems to be included in
the build. Was
Surely we can distinguish secured from unsecured laptops and allow
unsecured laptops to set the date?
I know I implemented this once...
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On Wed, Mar 28, 2012 at 10:44 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
I'd love to see serial terminal preloaded, but also acknowledge that I'm the
one pushing against a 2MB SPI Flash ROM. How about specifying
a location in the main build, where another 20KB of example OFW code
isn't as
I have about 20 XO Sticks and XOrduinos to give away to developers. Details at:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/66654.html
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Presumably with the standard multi-touch X support, which is landing
in Linux all over. That's how the XO-3 worked, at least, although
that was traditional capacitive touch; I don't think there's an actual
Neonode driver in existence anywhere yet.
--scott
On Tue, Jul 31, 2012 at 8:54 PM, Bert
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 6:17 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.comwrote:
On Wed, Jun 13, 2012 at 11:37 AM, Lester Leong lester.ble...@gmail.com
wrote:
Scott - could you point me in the right direction as far as a good
JS/HTML5 framework?
Keep in mind that _today_ XOs don't ship
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 9:15 PM, Lester Leong lester.ble...@gmail.comwrote:
As for Javascript, how? Javascript can't handle backends without some
significant running around - everything's gotta be database driven.
I think you need to look again at modern Javascript/HTML5 toolkits.
There are
On Tue, Jun 12, 2012 at 4:16 AM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
Hi Lester,
On Mon, Jun 11 2012, Lester Leong wrote:
I think it could just be as easy as having a collection of multimedia
and gamifying it. I thought of having a set of flashcards with audio -
then many things could be
..and if you can replace the php with javascript, your life will be
even easier. ;)
--scott
On 6/12/12, Gonzalo Odiard gonz...@laptop.org wrote:
Another thing is, with regards to webapp implementation - I have
thought of using PHP/HTML5/Javascript.
If you can replace PHP by python, your
Chris Ball, Michael Stone, and I submitted a short paper about Nell's
design for the 2012 Interaction Design and Children conference. It
contains a much more coherent description of our ideas and goals than
the random fragments at http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Nell.
The paper is posted at
Just to reinforce a few points which maybe might not be clear to
people who haven't played with the new hardware:
1) the switch point is set that *you cannot tell when we turn the
backlight off*. Ie, the threshold is so high that by the time we turn
it off, you couldn't never have told whether
On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 3:43 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
The suspense resume build, featuring suspend resume that may or may
not resume.
IIRC, some of the resume crashes are in fact suspend crashes. So it
may not even suspend. More suspense!
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And note that Jon's original advice was based on the absence of *EGL*
support in clutter at the present time. The fact that you can run/not
run gnome-shell on desktops with full *GL* support is not relevant.
This thread has diverged. GTK3 is not gnome3 is not gnome-shell; EGL
is not GL; Sugar
On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 12:49 AM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
For what its worth, the XO-1.75 is currently about half the speed of the XO1.5
Measured with Turtle Art
repeat 5000
fwd 100
back 100
print time
but as said, its early days for the 1.75 with optimization to come
Yeah,
I just posted an announcement for some invited talks we're having at
OLPC's new offices this Friday:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/64747.html
It will all be live-streamed at:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/cscottnet
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On Mon, Jun 6, 2011 at 8:11 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
Don Hopkins worked on a PostScript-based window system (HyperLook)
that would let you flip over an object on the screen to see behind
it a control panel with the guts of its implementation visible. You
could modify those, then
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's
Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its
own operating system and environment.
It is very tricky to retain/maintain
To sweeten the pot, I'm offering a delicious stone soup for anyone who those
who pitch in on the port. You need only supply a few extra ingredients.
--scott
On May 21, 2011 10:35 PM, moku...@earthtreasury.org wrote:
FYI. Anybody who would like to port Sugar to a $25 computer (requiring
only
I'm familiar with the processors designed for specific high-level
languages. There was another generation of them built for Java
(microblaze, picoblaze, etc) and some of those are even still
commercially significant (they run Java subsets on smart cards).
I'm not terribly interested in those
I've done a little more work on Turtles All The Way Down, which I
(very briefly) discussed at EduJam. I actually wrote a garbage
collector in TurtleScript for TurtleScript on Sunday. Brief writeup
here:
http://cananian.livejournal.com/64140.html
and exhaustive mind-numbing detail here:
2011/5/20 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu:
1. Why do the bytecode stuff? JS seems to be a perfectly good code
representation to me and it can be run much faster compared to a naive
bytecode interpreter or compiler written without the resources of the
Chrome/V8 team.
It's true. As described in
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 11:09 AM, Alan Kay alan.n...@yahoo.com wrote:
This is nice!
Smalltalk actually got started by thinking about a way to make a child's
Logo-like language with objects and pattern matching that could express its
own operating system and environment.
It is very tricky to
On Fri, May 20, 2011 at 2:28 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
separation. This is why they never learn to modify the real programs
that hide behind the fluffy interfaces on their real XO computers.
I hope to show you a system where the real program *is* the fluffy
interface (and vice
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 1:56 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at
http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
Briefly:
April 4-8: Android
April 11
Note that Quozl's version also works better on images created with
image-builder tools which delete files during the image creation
process (ie, on just about anything which involves mounting the
filesystem image during the image creation process; as opposed to
(say) squashfs, which is a read-only
On Thu, Apr 14, 2011 at 10:10 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
As an alternative, consider identifying the unused blocks in the
filesystem, and avoid including them in the .zd file. This would make
it unnecessary to know whether the bits will be set or cleared by the
card. ext2,
On Wed, Apr 13, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Alan Eliasen elia...@mindspring.com wrote:
I considered it also a serious problem that the then-shipping
configurations of the OLPC completely lacked fonts with glyphs for many
languages (e.g. there were no fonts with Chinese or Japanese characters)
so these
On Mon, Apr 4, 2011 at 6:09 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at
http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
Briefly:
April 4-8: Android
The report on the first week of work is now up at:
http://cananian.livejournal.com
2011/4/12 NoiseEHC noise...@freemail.hu:
What I do not get is this: what is the goal?
An excellent educational experience on tablet devices, within the
resources of the current Sugar community.
Having an environment running on Android which can run the same XO bundles
which are run by XO-1.x?
On Tue, Apr 12, 2011 at 5:45 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
And, again, I have to remind folks that this is only *one* possible
forward path for Sugar-on-Tablets. This week I am examining a
ChromeOS-based option. http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
describes the
Thanks for your links to the mailing list threads. That's handy to
have at my fingertips.
I agree that the activities are key. Transparent compatibility is
probably impossible, but I hope that porting the activities will not
be too hard. Minimizing unnecessary API changes and writing a good
I've posted a four week plan for XO-3 software exploration at
http://cananian.livejournal.com/62667.html
Briefly:
April 4-8: Android
April 11-15: Chrome/ChromeOS/NativeClient
April 18-22: Get down dirty with mesh
April 25-29: Yanking legacy Sugar codebase into the future
May 2-6: in Uruguay to
This is a corollary with my recent post on things to do -- here are
the people I've like to get OLPC talking/working more closely with.
Google teams:
- ChromeOS (Ed has contact info already for the ChromeOS on ARM
project manager)
- Android
- NativeClient
Networking teams:
- OLSRd (we've got
On Apr 1, 2011 11:03 AM, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote:
Hello all:
As many of you are aware, work is being done to improve the graphics
performance of various XO laptop platforms.
So in an attempt to improve things further, I looked into optimizing the
data Sugar sends to the
On Thu, Mar 24, 2011 at 3:26 PM, Christoph Derndorfer
christoph.derndor...@gmail.com wrote:
Hi all,
the folks from the Austrian pilot project want to equip the XO-1s there with
SD cards. Are there any restrictions wrt size, speed, etc. that they should
be aware of when purchasing the SD cards?
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 9:30 PM, Peter Robinson pbrobin...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Mar 23, 2011 at 11:38 PM, John Gilmore g...@toad.com wrote:
Meraki are also doing mesh related things with the APs etc.
Its my understanding (not that I've had much time to play) that mesh
has improved greatly
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:52 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
On Mon, Mar 21, 2011 at 1:01 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
On 19 March 2011 17:16, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
updates.laptop.org now offers this stream. Instructions are on the
11.2.0 page above
Originally you could override by putting frames in ~/.bootanim.
http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Tweaking_the_boot_animation
Don't know if that's still the case.
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I apologize; I think the code that sets timezone correctly might
have been code I wrote for litl, not OLPC.
--scott
On Sunday, March 13, 2011, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
On 13 March 2011 03:21, Samuel Greenfeld greenf...@laptop.org wrote:
Sugar reports only relative times in its core
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Andrei Warkentin andr...@motorola.com wrote:
Sorry to butt in, I think I'm missing most of the context
herenevertheless... I'm curious, ignoring outer packaging and
product names, if you look at cards with the same CID (i.e. same
manfid/oemid/date/firmware
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:00 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 8:57 AM, Andrei Warkentin andr...@motorola.com
wrote:
Sorry to butt in, I think I'm missing most of the context
herenevertheless... I'm curious, ignoring outer packaging and
product names
On Sun, Mar 13, 2011 at 1:04 PM, Sascha Silbe si...@activitycentral.com wrote:
Excerpts from C. Scott Ananian's message of Sun Mar 13 16:41:36 +0100 2011:
I apologize; I think the code that sets timezone correctly might
have been code I wrote for litl, not OLPC.
No problem. Do you remember
Canonical related blog post: http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=918
Mandatory reading for anyone who has to deal with flash memory.
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On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 5:51 PM, Arnd Bergmann a...@arndb.de wrote:
I've had four cards with a Sandisk label that had unusual characteristics
and manufacturer/OEM IDs that refer to other companies, three Samsung (SM)
and one unknown (BE, possibly lexar). In all cases, the Sandisk support
has
Last I knew we used standard Linux conventions for timezones and sugar
called the standard Linux commands (via sudo) to set the timezone.
But that should make 'date' report the correct local time (unless you
use '-u') so maybe someone broke that sometime in the past two years.
Check
Posting your machine's serial number as well as then contents of your
develop.sig might help; your developer key might be malformed or
correspond to a different XO than the one you are trying to use it on.
You can also try the collection key method, as one more check on the
process by which you
On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 2:16 AM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:
why am I getting different readings for each method?
My guess is that file /home/.devkey.html was copied in from some other
system, and shows the serial number and UUID of the copied-from system.
It would be interesting to
FWIW, the original intent was *only* to allow SRPMS in the dropbox; we were
going to explicitly rebuild the RPMs from the SRPMS in mock and use only the
built RPMs. In addition to ensuring compliance with licensing provisions,
this was also intended as a developer aid: at the time, it was often
Recapping for the list: Jim Gettys sent me a pair of papers to read
yesterday, both linked from
http://www.ccnx.org/content/content-centric-networking-resources
1) V. Jacobson, D. K. Smetters, J. D. Thornton, M. F. Plass, N. H. Briggs,
R. L. Braynard (PARC) Networking Named Content, CoNEXT 2009,
On Sun, Feb 6, 2011 at 7:29 AM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
mock.laptop.org, our server for frozen packages i.e. a clone of the
latest Fedora and OLPC RPMs frozen for each software release, is out
of disk space and somewhat unloved, and I'd like to use the
opportunity to make some
On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 6:02 PM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote:
Accelerometer?
Sweet! :)
It looks like the XO-1.75 has the LIS33xx, which is roughly the same
accelerometer as used in the iPhone, Android phones, etc.
Our ODM suggested replacing our LIS33DH with an accelerometer from
On Tue, Dec 7, 2010 at 12:04 AM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
(You'll notice that on a good sound system it is quite different to
playback on an XO ... it takes a bit of equalisation to reproduce the XO
speakers.)
The converse, actually. The sound file was extensively EQ'd so that
it
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:49 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
On 24 November 2010 22:40, Kevin Gordon kgordon...@gmail.com wrote:
Is this recommendation against yum and rpm for all software, or just the
oplc repo packages, the kernel and the firmware? I'm certainly happy doing
just
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Sascha Silbe
sascha-ml-reply-to-201...@silbe.org wrote:
2. The voltage I see with bias off is probably generated internally by
the codec chip. [...]
Unless someone finds a magic way to disable this from the digital
side of the chip (which I doubt), we'll
Assuming OLPC isn't using TRIM support on the SD cards, writes to the
swap space are indistinguishable from writes to any other space on the
card. That means that writes to the swap partition could
potentially corrupt other data on the card, especially if it occurs
less than 30s before removal of
As my own clarification: I wasn't dismissing possible performance
improvements (of any kind). I was just commenting on the old lockup
bugs, saying this might not actually be related to no-swap-space,
although it's possible memory pressure exacerbates the problem. For
performance issues, you have
On Mon, Nov 22, 2010 at 6:43 PM, Mikus Grinbergs mi...@bga.com wrote:
If indistinguishable is true, then there is as much wear to the SD
card from one file-block written as there is from one swap-block
written.
Yes.
I have no measurements whatsoever - but my gut feel is that
the majority
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
- Flash pays a hefty price for its refusal to use Xv. Don't install
pulseaudio.
- Skype 2.0.0.72 works reasonably well once you set the right
microphone input. Latest Skype (2.1.0.81) doesn't play well with
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 3:08 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
I think you'll have more success with the latest skype using pulseaudio.
No need for speculation. I can tell you: in general terms, F11
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From: Krishnan R.S. rskrish...@hotmail.com
Date: Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:48 AM
Subject: Upgrading a _very_ old OLPC
To: csc...@laptop.org
Hello,
I managed to get my hands on a very old OLPC XO laptop for my
daughter. I've been trying, unsuccessfully, to
As a wild stab at a first guess, it sounds like a software problem to
me -- seems like xoscope is not successfully turning off either the
bias voltage or the decoupling capacitor (high pass filter). Perhaps
a silent failure of some sort?
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On Wed, Nov 17, 2010 at 2:46 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
As a wild stab at a first guess, it sounds like a software problem to
me -- seems like xoscope is not successfully turning off either the
bias voltage or the decoupling capacitor (high pass filter). Perhaps
a silent
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:38 AM, Walter Bender walter.ben...@gmail.com wrote:
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 11:19 AM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
On Mon, Nov 15, 2010 at 4:19 PM, fors...@ozonline.com.au wrote:
Just make sure you keep in mind the difference between the specification
Hey, that looks a lot like the conference rooms *I've* been spending
weeks in! ;-)
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On Thu, Oct 28, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
On 28 October 2010 15:54, Martin Langhoff martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On XO-1, we have a long painful history with synaptics and the EC,
that's led to it being disabled. Instead we use the PS2 protocol.
I just realised
On Wed, Oct 20, 2010 at 5:55 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
The right fix is just what we wanna do for the upstream dev branch,
for the next cycle.
Sigh.
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Subject: Internal Server Error
From: *Pavel Stržínek* strzi...@edhouse.cz
Date: 2010/9/11
To: csc...@laptop.org
Hello Scott
I'm trying to apply for a developer key for OLPC v1 from Browser
activity right on XO device but I'm getting Internal
I'm not 100% certain we've pulled in members of the OLSR mailing lists
on this thread yet.
But they've actually got a number of very impressive *real world*
demonstrations of OLSRd in the wild. You'll have to search the devel@
archives for 'olsr' to find the emails I sent years ago with all the
On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 11:24 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
Our experiment with SD/MMC cards as main storage continues.
FWIW, I'm about two weeks into failure testing of 4G MLC compact flash
from a couple of vendors. I'll update the list when one or both of
them kick the bucket. Is
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 2:33 PM, Reuben K. Caron reu...@laptop.org wrote:
deployments that would like to install content bundles. They package
these files into .xol packages and these packages get installed into
the Library, which is contained on the left hand side of the Browse
activity. Yes,
On Tue, Jul 13, 2010 at 1:47 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
I was aware that maybe we had different in scaling/dpi on our
browsers, but Aliosh (from the Perú team) pointed out how large the
difference is between Firefox and Browse.xo:
Here shown between an XO-1.5 on
It may be worth looking at http://trac.edgewall.org/roadmap for how
the trac team itself uses it.
In particular, if you check the Show completed milestones box, and
then on some old milestone (like, say,
http://trac.edgewall.org/milestone/0.11.3 ) you can drill down into
any component and see what
On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 3:49 PM, Chris Ball c...@laptop.org wrote:
What about the compiler? IIUC currently a commercial compiler is
required. If that continues to be the case (as I expect it to),
would it be possible for OLPC to provide the (probably very few)
users interested in
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
While we have your attention on this topic...
Do you not think that this is a security issue? In that a thief could
put a laptop on a network
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From: C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org
Date: Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 3:11 PM
Subject: 9.1 Proposal: Improving antitheft
To: Devel List de...@laptop.org, sugar su...@lists.laptop.org
I'd like our antitheft support to be more of a feature which G1G1
users could elect
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 9:54 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
NetworkManager used to call ntpdate when it setup a connection. Was that an
OLPC addition?
Yes, although it's now present in litl's software builds as well.
We figured out that the ntp package has never been present
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:48 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
On Jul 7, 2010, at 4:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Since RTC security is being discussed again, I'm going to repost two
relevant proposals from the good old days. First: on making
theft-deterrence a feature
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 2:16 AM, Aleksey Lim alsr...@member.fsf.org wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 01:18:04AM -0400, Michael Stone wrote:
Bernie wrote:
On Tue, 2010-07-06 at 12:02 -0400, Benjamin M. Schwartz wrote:
I think you are missing an important requirement: installation without
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 4:01 PM, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
* Updating exactly every hour is vulnerable to an attacker who
arranges to remove the battery from the machine exactly 55 minutes
after power on, every time. This is still quite awkward, but to avoid
even this attack
On Fri, Jul 2, 2010 at 4:53 PM, Martin Langhoff
martin.langh...@gmail.com wrote:
- It is slow and laggy. A VNC protocol expert may be able to help us
optimise...
Might try some of the VNC encoding options, like those at:
http://www.realvnc.com/products/free/4.1/winvncviewer.html#ColorEncoding
On Wed, Jul 7, 2010 at 6:54 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
On Jul 7, 2010, at 5:07 PM, James Cameron wrote:
On Wed, Jul 07, 2010 at 04:57:19PM -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
Unfortunately, the software changes required are to EC code, which is
difficult for outside contributors
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 10:33 +0200, Tomeu Vizoso wrote:
You mean a script placed in /etc/NetworkManager/dispatcher.d/ ?
Yes, and then invoke hwclock --systohc.
I was just hoping to find something already written,
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 8:33 PM, Bernie Innocenti ber...@codewiz.org wrote:
On Mon, 2010-07-05 at 20:30 -0400, C. Scott Ananian wrote:
I wrote that script when I was at OLPC. It should still be packaged
somewhere.
I see olpc-update-ifup in my builds, but nothing related to ntpdate.
Do you
On Mon, Jul 5, 2010 at 11:52 PM, Daniel Drake d...@laptop.org wrote:
On 5 July 2010 21:44, C. Scott Ananian csc...@laptop.org wrote:
Maybe someone's got a copy of build 653 lying around and they can run
rpm -q for us.
While we have your attention on this topic...
Do you not think
On Wed, Apr 28, 2010 at 5:19 PM, James Cameron qu...@laptop.org wrote:
Australian teachers that I've met have pointed out that their kids are
primarily taught lowercase letters, and would prefer a keyboard to be
marked with lowercase letters rather than uppercase letters.
Not having looked at
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 4:20 AM, Carlos Nazareno object...@gmail.com wrote:
If possible, go for a minimum of 5 touch points capability, which is
what Apple has I think.
Apple actually supports 11 on the iPad. Palm and the iPhone support 5.
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 9:23 AM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
An interesting effect I've noticed is that with some touchscreen, you get
smooth
lines when moving your finger at a normal speed, say 8 cm/s, but when you
slow
down (1 cm/s) the line wiggles around.
See
On Tue, Jun 8, 2010 at 11:14 PM, John Watlington w...@laptop.org wrote:
The mini cocktail wieners I'm familiar with are still
around 8-10mm. I guess I could carve one down
and wrap it in plastic...
Gummy fingers are more fun: http://cryptome.info/0001/gummy/gummy.htm
--scott
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